Artist’s Notes - kim heejo

Artist’s Notes

The artist's note introduces the artist's attitude toward art and life, the process of unfolding art, and various thoughts in that process.

Note 10

Vision & Perception

Seeing begins at the surface of sensation, yet it always ends within the structure of perception. The eye is not merely an organ that receives the world, but a principle through which the world is continually reorganized. I do not simply see the world; I experience how my inner self arranges and interprets it, reshaping what appears before me.

2018 노트에서 발췌

Note 11

White Circle

White is not a color but a state before light scatters — a pause where sensation has yet to condense into form. Within it, nothing exists, yet everything rests in silence. I understand this “white” as the first breath of existence, the moment before the world takes shape. It is where perception and awareness are still undivided, where thought begins to stir alongside light.

2018 노트에서 발췌

Note 12

Pictoriality

Pictoriality does not concern the beauty of what looks like a painting. It is not a matter of imitation but of how color, line, and rhythm on a surface breathe together as a single order — the precise moment when sensation transforms into thought. Painting is not a mirror of what is seen, but a search for the principle that makes seeing possible. When I speak of pictoriality, I am not referring to representation, but to the way existence reveals itself upon a surface.

2018-2024

Note 13

Transformative Experience

Transform always precedes conscious detection. It is not a decision or an event, but the manner in which consciousness renews and recalibrates itself. Even a slight disruption in the flow of time is instantly registered by the senses. In the density of air and light, the rhythm of a stride, the cadence of breath—the world is already quietly re-aligning. This transformation is not an external occurrence; it is a minute tuning where the internal algorithms of perception shift their own equilibrium.

2018-2025

Note 14

BYR Organic Schemata Relational Visual Grammar

OS is not a system in which individual forms simply accumulate; it is a structure in which the relational forces between elements generate the scene itself. Lines, planes, colors, and densities do not replace or dominate one another, nor do they retain fixed roles. Every visual event arises from shifts in relation. Here, relation is not a mere connection but a deep structure that encompasses the way sensation reads objects, how perception organizes the world, and how existence encounters its surroundings.

2020-2025

Note 15

After Questions

Post-existence question. Memory changes and is forgotten. Record is the window to the past. Cuthroat life’s record fixes the me of memory, and gives re-birth to me. What elements indeed regulate human life? Bearing of what fruit do I live for?

2018 노트에서 발췌

Note 16

The Trajectory of Being: Beyond Causality

Is causality merely a simple passage from cause to effect? Or is it something far more primordial—a structure of being itself?

2013-2025

Note 17

Aesthetics of Discrepancy, and Resonance

Fruit often ripens quietly in unexpected obscurity, not necessarily where we reach out. Happiness is not acquired by possession, but is a state of ‘Resonance’ where the external world enters and creates ripples within.... This discrepancy is not merely a failure, but rather evidence that a realm beyond our control always exists.

2023 노트에서 발췌

Note 18

Philosophy of Art & Life

My contemplation begins with confronting the unsealed, fundamental rift situated between the ideals beyond perception and the reality upon which I stand. Although humanity possesses an intuition regarding ultimate unity, our consciousness and our physical body are a finite medium that can never reach that state.

2020 노트에서 발췌

Note 19

The Question of the Human

What kind of stance can we reasonably ask of ourselves? Not perfection, but a refusal to treat ourselves carelessly. And alongside that, a willingness to regard others not as metrics or abstractions, but as persons

2024 노트에서 발췌